Where are the heavy duty tow vehicles?

[blades]

I was just wondering where sll the heavy duty tow vehicles have dissapeared too? I've not really paid attention and only just started looking for something thats still available new and capable of towing 3500kg?

 

Are Land Rovers really the last of the bunch? There used to be so many that I seem to remember were rated at 3500kg, troopers, fourtraks, landcruisers, patrols.... I know fuel has gone up and we've all become 'greener' but is no one using or looking for workhorses any longer?

 

I spoke to Land Rover today and was informed that currently (but this may change) that the current defender IS to be fazed out and replaced by that snazzy looking thing we have seen... it's looking likely that it will be rated to tow 2.5T only

 

I currently have a shogun, it's rated to 3T and does a good job but the extra capacity would be nice.

 

Interested to hear the thoughts of others

[Daniël Bos]

Some (not all!) landcruisers, Tuaregs, cayennes and x5's

LR Disco

Defender

RR

Merc ML

Jeep grand Cherokee

Ssanyoung Rexton (though maybe not the latest ones?)

 

That's most of them, if not all.

[redmoosefaction]

Iveco Daily 35C14 :-)

[Stephen Blair]

My Iveco can tow 3.5 ton:)

Rangey sport will aswell.

[difflock]

Erm, actually, most of those listed were not legal to tow 3500kg, but everyone did regardless.

Ditto for Transit vans plated to tow 1600kg.

Sure its a Jeep/a 4*4 a whatever "of course it tows 3500kg"

The LR products and the Fourtrak were actually oddities in this respect.

Not sure about Toyota Land Cruiser Amazon, cos I tink some of them could not even tow 3500kg legally

Recently tow weights have actually crept up significently.

[Hodge]

I still can't believe that Land Rover are getting rid of the Defender?? What's all the farmers going to do? Nearly all the farmers round here have defenders. They then replace it with a posing vehicle that's as much good as a chocolate fire guard. Plonkers.

[difflock]

Funny enough I suspect a lot of farmers now yok into a tractor for the bigger cattle trailers.

Actually faster across country even IF limited to 40K and plenty are doing 50k

Plus one can see over the neighbours hedges much better.

[Daniël Bos]

Erm, actually, most of those listed were not legal to tow 3500kg, but everyone did regardless.

.

 

Which are not legal to tow 3,5t?

Just had a quick look at the official specs just now,

X5

Cayenne

Tuareg

RR (sport)

Disco

ML

All legally tow 3500kg

Some landcruisers do as well?

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Erm, actually, most of those listed were not legal to tow 3500kg, but everyone did regardless.

Ditto for Transit vans plated to tow 1600kg.

Sure its a Jeep/a 4*4 a whatever "of course it tows 3500kg"

The LR products and the Fourtrak were actually oddities in this respect.

Not sure about Toyota Land Cruiser Amazon, cos I tink some of them could not even tow 3500kg legally

Recently tow weights have actually crept up significently.

 

Not sure about Toyota Land Cruiser Amazon, cos I tink some of them could not even tow 3500kg legally

 

Land Cruiser Amazon plated to tow 3500kgs, its one of a few that are nowadays, its what me dad had to buy to tow his larger site cabins round with as his ranger could only tow 2500kgs

[difflock]

Rover,

Apologies,

I paid scant attention to your list:001_tt2:

I suppose I was over generalizing.

However I despaired at the number of belligerent a**holes driving lifestyle pick-ups, Mitibushi Wotsits "G" Wagens even:blushing: etc etc who insisted they were legal to tow 3500kg, even after I had lifted the bonnet /opened the door and carefully explained how to read the manufacturers plate.

Tis but simple fornicating sums, wot dont even need a calculator.

This btw is from memories formed over the past 20 years.